One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 11156
Receipt for wine delivered by camel, from Maximos to Heroninos TM 11156Theadelphia (Arsinoites)30. Nov. 264
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A receipt from Aurelius Maximos, a wine-dispatching agent of the landowner Antonius Philoxenos, to Heroninos, manager of an estate at Theadelphia, acknowledging deliveries of wine. It records 1,900 jars of good-quality wine of year 12 and further consignments brought by camel in Hathyr and Choiak.
In English machine translation
Aurelius Maximos, wine-dispatcher (diastoleus) of Antonius Philoxenos, to Aurelius Heroninos his father, greetings.
I have received from the produce of the good-quality produce of [year 12], 1,900 monochora of wine, total 1,900 monochora.
Year 12, Phaophi 6 to Hathyr.
Likewise, Hathyr 29, by camels, wine, in number 266 single monochora, total 266 monochora.
Choiak 1, likewise by camels, wine, 242 single monochora, total 242 monochora.
4th, likewise by camels, wine, 244 single monochora, total 244 monochora.
Part of the Heroninos archive; 'father' is a courtesy title. A monochoron is a single-measure wine jar, and the diastoleus was an agent who checked and dispatched consignments.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Corrispondenza heroniniana - Maximos). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
p.lond.3.1210
Αὐρήλιος Μάξιμος διαστολεὺς Ἀντωνίου Φιλοξένου Αὐρηλίῳ Ἡρωνίνῳ τῷ πατρὶ χαίρειν. παρέλαβον ἀπὸ γενημάτων τῶν εὐσχημόνων γενημάτων ιβ ἔτους οἴνου μονόχωρα χίλια ἐνακόσια γίνεται μονόχωρα Αϡ. ἔτους ιβ Φαῶφι ϛ Ἁθύρ. ὁμοίως Ἁθὺρ κθ διὰ καμήλων οἴνου ἀριθμῷ ἁπλᾶ μονόχωρα διακόσια ἑξήκ…